thepeasant
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Hi, so I have myself in a bit of a pickle.
I got a virus a while ago which froze windows after startup. The only recourse was to reinstall windows on a different partition. The virus is now wiped out, but my old install of windows was ruined.
I attempted several methods of troubleshooting, the latest being running a windows repair through the CD. The current situation of the old install is that it boots up to a black screen where I can manoever the mouse cursor as desired but without any other functionality (this is before the login screen, which never occurs). The same thing happens in Safe Mode (even with command prompt) except that in Safe Mode the 'safe mode' text is displayed around the edges.
I'm fine with using my new install, however there are some important documents in my old profile's 'My Documents' folder which I need to recover. In any other login my user name folder is 0kb large and it says 'Access is Denied' when I try to open it, obviously because it was made private to my old username.
So, how would I go about recovering the documents? Is my only recourse somehow fixing my old windows install, or is there a roundabout way of getting to it?
Thanks in advance,
~TP
I got a virus a while ago which froze windows after startup. The only recourse was to reinstall windows on a different partition. The virus is now wiped out, but my old install of windows was ruined.
I attempted several methods of troubleshooting, the latest being running a windows repair through the CD. The current situation of the old install is that it boots up to a black screen where I can manoever the mouse cursor as desired but without any other functionality (this is before the login screen, which never occurs). The same thing happens in Safe Mode (even with command prompt) except that in Safe Mode the 'safe mode' text is displayed around the edges.
I'm fine with using my new install, however there are some important documents in my old profile's 'My Documents' folder which I need to recover. In any other login my user name folder is 0kb large and it says 'Access is Denied' when I try to open it, obviously because it was made private to my old username.
So, how would I go about recovering the documents? Is my only recourse somehow fixing my old windows install, or is there a roundabout way of getting to it?
Thanks in advance,
~TP